Darfur HIV/AIDS Project Complete

Darfus HIV/AIDS Education Project Complete; Thanks to Support from GHETS Donors At the 2007 GHETS Leadership Reception in Ft Lauderdale, FL (held in May in conjunction with the Plaintiffs Asbestos Litigation Seminar), GHETS partner Dr. Mohamed Moukhyer ( Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan) spoke about his health education work with residents and workers in refugee camps in Sudan. Years of war in Southern Sudan, followed by the current conflict in Darfur have forced millions of Sudanese into crowded camps throughout the country. Dr. Moukhyer began his efforts in 2005 with a mini-grant from GHETS. That small pilot project provided […]

2007 Network: TUFH International Conference, FaMEC-Africa Meetings, and GHETS Board Meeting A working group at the African Association of Health Institutions Mini-Workshop. The GHETS team has just returned from a successful trip to Uganda for two packed weeks of meetings and conference participation in conjunction with theNetwork: TUFH 2007 International Conference. This year’s conference theme was “Human Resources for Health: Recruitment, Education and Retention.” During the conference, GHETS helped organize a number of sessions in conjunction with our Women’s Health and Health Workforce Development programs. A successful First Annual Women’s Health Film Festival was health, showing documentary films on a […]

GHETS is continuing to support the development of the African Association of Health Institutions (AAHI). Founded at the 2006 Network conference in Belgium , AAHI is a coalition of more than 30 African Health Institutes seeking to strengthen Africa ‘s health workforce by increasing international collaboration. By establishing partnerships within Africa ‘s international medical community, AAHI facilitates exchange of healthcare knowledge and resources. This May, and then again in September, the AAHI taskforce met in Kampala, Uganda . The meetings resulted in the successful finalization and adoption of an official AAHI charter. The charter recognizes four objectives underpinning the AAHI […]

At Wonca World Conference in Singapore this July the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) has named GHETS a “Friend of WONCA” in recognition of its work supporting family Medicine initiatives in East Africa . WONCA is the worlds leading association of family medicine institutions with a goal of improving quality of life through improvements in family medicine. This past year, for example GHETS worked to improve the quality of family medicine through FaMEC and Moi University in Kenya. With FaMEC, GHETS is working to expand collaborations and resource sharing within Africa to improve the quality of family medicine education […]

Promotion of Workers’ Health and Safety (PROSSTRAB) in Nicaragua GHETS is pleased to announce the completion of a grant from the Culture, Food and Health Foundation to improve workers’ health in Nicaragua . This program offers a novel cooperation between medical school faculty and students at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua- Leon and union leaders with the Workers’ Union Confederation– Jose Benito Escobar (CST-JBE). Through this program, medical school faculty and students gain insight about the issues of occupational health facing Nicaraguan workers in different industries by collaborating with union leaders to create industry specific programs. This helps to […]

The first of our 2007 Mini-grant programs has completed! On August 23 and 24th a group of thirty women associated with women’s church based support groups met in the Aba Abia state of South East Nigeria. Over the course of two days these church group leaders learned about specific issues in women’s health through the Women’s Health Learning Package, and more importantly they learned effective methods for teaching others this information. During this two day training workshop, women chose topics of interest to them, including Violence against Women, and HIV/AIDS and developed innovative teaching methods to convey information. In groups […]

Women and Health Taskforce: Mini-Grants Announced GHETS recently awarded a total of $10,000 towards mini-grants (each is no more than $3,000) that will support the use of the Women and Health Learning Package (WHLP), a collection of curricular modules that aim to spread knowledge and awareness of women’s health issues among the future generation of healthcare providers. Each year, the grant proposals are reviewed by the Women and Health Taskforce, a coalition of professionals from around the world who are committed to improving the quality of women’s health through education and training. This year, the Taskforce has chosen four recipients […]

This summer saw the conclusion of a project in Uganda, funded by the Dickler Family Foundation, to improve the capacity of two rural health centers serving as community-based learning facilities for medical students. Uganda recently developed a national-level initiative to strengthen the primary care available in rural areas by sending medical students to clinics in these communities for practicum training. Despite the potential of this initiative, inadequate facilities and learning resources hampered the effectiveness of the program. GHETS collaborated with two universities in order to promote the Kiyeyi Health Center in eastern Uganda and the Rugazi Health Center in the […]

After two years of working with the Family Medicine Educational Consortium (FaMEC) to develop post-graduate training for family physicians in primary health care, GHETS is excited to expand this group into Eastern and Southern Africa with the arrival of a new grant. FaMEC recently received a large pilot grant from the European Union’s program, EduLink, which promotes “South-South partnerships” exemplified by FaMEC’s integration of primary healthcare training programs within African countries. African nations are experiencing a severe shortage of well trained and skilled health workers. Most doctors and nurses are concentrated in urban areas or in private health care facilities, […]